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®l)c Wccldn (Constitutionalist BY JAMES GARDNER. PUBLIC INFORMATION. We bars already published the first class <*t exempts under Act es Congress, April 21, 18t*l. j The following completes the list. Those wish ing substitutes will take notice 11. Bv the above act of Congress the following ' classes of pen ons are exempt from enrollment, for military service : , ' • Justices of the peace, sheriffs, and depnj sheriffs clerks and deputy clerks, allowed by law masters and commissioners tn chancery ; Uistrici and State attorneys; attorney g 8“ e I r *’> :e»s, and deputy postmisters, and aierks allowed ( bv law; commissioners of revenue and foreign* : s , who have not acquired in the Confederate ( States.- 111. The-fo’lowing are not exempt: i Militia officers not in actual service ; persons ■ exempt bv State laws, but not by the above act-; ■ -v reigners who have acquired domicil in the j Confederate States. * ’ IV. No persons mber than those expressly ; named or properly implied in the above act can be exempted, except by furnisbing.a substitute, exempt from military service, in conformity with regulations already published (General Orders, No. 29) and such exemption is valid only so long as the said substitute is legally exs . Persons who have furnished substitutes will receive their certificates of exemption from ] the captains of companies, or the commandants ! of camps, bv whom the substitutes have been ac- ' cepted Other certificates of exemption will be , granted by the enrolling officers only, who wi i ' receive full instructions in regard io the condi- | tionsand mode of exemption. Applications ; for exemption cannot therefore, be considered j by the War Department. Bv command of the Sec eiary of War. S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector-General. The following are the regulations concerning substitutes, above refvred to : Gsnbral Orders, No. 29. 1. The following regulations concerning sub gutntes in thearmv are published by direction of the Secretary of War : 1. Any non-commissioned officer or so.dier ■ not indebted to the government, who wishes to I procure a substitute, may obtain from his «»p* > lain a permit for the proposed substitute to re- i port himself at the camp of the company for * examination ; and such permit shall operate as . a passport, but shall not entitle the holder to I transportation at the expense of the govern- i scent. 2. If the substitute be exempt frain military j duty, and on examination by a surgeon or as* - r. surgeon of the army, be pronounced ; sound and m all respects fit for military service, he shall be enrolled and mustered info service for taree years, unless the war sooner terminate; tmd the non-commissioned officer or soldier pros curing him shall thereupon be discharged, but eealt nat be entitled to transportation at the ex pense of the government. 8. If a non commissioned effioer or soldier •discharged by reason of a substitute be indebted io the government, the officer granting .the dis charge shall be liable ter the debt. 4. AU pav and allowances due to the non-com missioned officer or soldier discharged shall go to the substitute at the next pay day. 5. Substitution shall not exceed one per month in each company, and shall be noted in the next morning report, muster rail, and monthly re* • font il. When any liable to militaay duty under the act of (rongressjfcut not mustered ina te service in any company, desires to faraish a substitute, he sisal! report himself wi.h the sub stitute to the commandant- of a camp of inst ne tioc for recruits raised under the said act; and if the substitute be lawfully exempt from military duty, and on examination by a surgeon or assis tant surgeon be pronc-uneed sound and t* al! re* ♦pects fit for military service, he may be ac-. cepted and enrolled, and the person furnishing scch substitute may be discharged by the eom mandant us the camp ; but no substitute shall be entitled to transportation er other allowance at the expense of the government until so a-ecepted acd enrolled. FROM CORINTH. F. W. A., the Army Correspondent of the Sa vannah Republican, in his letter of May 17th, says that the weather there has become very dry; that the country has become very dusty, and water is getting scarce. Gen. Beauregard has ordered the boring of several wells, w hich, it is bwlieved, will afford an inexhaustible supply of water. We quote the conclusion of the letter, for the interesting explanation of a flag of truce winch it contains : Sixty-one Federal prisoners were paroled and sent to Gen. Halleck under a flag of truce two days ago, and one hundred and nine yesterday. The party encountered the enemy’s pickets four miles from town on the Monterey road. Per haps some account of a flag of truce between two armies would not prove uninteresting to some of your readers. When the commanders of opposing armies de sire to communicate with each other, either for an exchange of prisoners, the burying of the dead, or the safe passage es non-combatants through their lines, or for any other purpose, it can be ■only done under a flag of truce. The party bean , ng the flog way consist of ten or fifty men, as the case may be, who are usually mounted. If the object be to convey a written communication, a small party only is sent with it. If it be to conduct prisoners through the lines, then the number of the escort or guard depends upon the number of prisoners to be delivered. The par tv is always accompanied by an officer, whose duty it is to deliver the letter or turn over the prisoners under Lis charge. Having passed beyond their own lines, the party proceeded in the following order : First-comes a man on horseback, with a white flag in his hand, which be continues to wave, in order to attract the attention of the enemy’s pickets and prevent them from tiring upon him through mistake. By his side is another man, also mounted, who is provided with a bugle or trumpet which be continues»to blow incessantly. This is called “sounding a parley.” The object is to notify the adversary of your approach, and c’ your desire to communicate with him—liter acy, te *aik with him. Next follow the officer, bearing the dispatch, and the escort, some fifty ar sixty paces in the rear of the flag. When the party have reached the lines of the other s. they are halted until word can be en ’ * orwar u to the officer in command of the forces at that point, or they are conducted to ms headquarters. Arrived there the object . ,<ie visit is explained, and the letter or prisoners de. ivered. /f f} l€ business be such .-.at only the c.>maaiuder-in chief-can attend -to ben tne communication is forwarded imine* —ateiy to him, who either rt turns an answer at E rH? P i < ’ n r „ P ,7's nae j to do 80 a ’ an early period. ■»> u 1 pendenc J Ibe negotiations' and ' " J o ceiißar| ly consumed in going and tPiTit/’a h f Vu^ ,S V e “ POrary Ce8 ‘ ,ation of hos ' ti.i.ies—a truce—between the party beating the flag unde-wfoc P blh ng f ° rC€S ' the is called a flag of is X"7 «« ndu ? l « d iy improper for either party to vantage of this necessary intercourse to examine the w2rks of the other, or lo pry into his condition o so receive secret Intelligence from any of his dis? effected troops, or so approach them with cor rupt propositions. i letter FROM commodore tattnal. • TUK DEST.IVCTION OF THE VIRGINIA. The following is a copy of a letter addressed I bv Commodore Tattnal to Secretary Mallory : Richmond, Va., May 14. 18*12. Sir: In detailing to you the circumstances which caused the destruction of theC. S. steamer “Virginia” and her movements a few days pres vious to that event, I begin with your telegraph* ic dispatches to me on the 4th and sth inst., di recting me to lake such a position in the James river us would entirely prevent the enemy’s as cend! sg it. .. r ~ General Hugar, commanding at Norfolk, on learning that 1 had received this order, calling on me and declared*thatats execution would oblige him to immediately, his Forts on “Craney Island”' , Rnd ’‘Sewell’s Point” and their guns to the enemy. I informed him, that, as the order was imperative, 1 must execute it, but suggested that be should telegraph vou and state the consequences. He did so, and on the tiih mat., you telegraphed me to endeavor to afford protection to Norfolk as well as James jiver, which replaced me in my original position, I then arranged with the General that be should notify me when his preparations for the evacua tion of Norfolk were sufficiently advanced to en» ‘ able me to act independently. On the7th instant, Commodore Hollins reached Norfolk with orders from vou to consult with me ‘ and such officers as I might select in regard to tne best disposition to made of the V rginia un der the present aspect ot things. We had arranged the Cent. .ence lor the next dIV the Bth, baton mat uny, before the hour appointed, the enemy attacked lhe Sewell’s Point buttery, and I ieft immediately with the Virginia to defend it. • < • •- We found six of the enemy's vessels, including the iron clad steamers, Monitor and Naugatuck, shelling the battery. We passed the battery and stood directly for the enemy, for the pur pose of engaging him, and I thought an action certain, purticutarly as the Minnesota and VAn derbilt, which were anchored below Fortress Monroe, got under way and stood ap to that point, apparently with the intention of joining their squadron in the Roads. Before, however, we got within gun shot, the enemy ceased tiring and retired with all speed under the protection of the Fortress, followed by the Virginia, until the shells from the Rip Raps passed over B.tr. The “Virginia” was then placed at her moor* 1 ingsnear Sewell’s Point, and I returned to Nor* ' iolk to tola the Conference refer red to. It was held on the 9th, and the officers present were Colonel Anderson and Captain , of the Army, selected by General Huger, who was too unwell to attend himself, and, of the Navy, myself, Commodore Hollins, Captains Sterrett i and Lee, Commander Richard L. Page and Lieu- j tenants Ap. Catesby Jones, and J. Pembroke; Jones. • • The opinion was unanimous that the Virginia i was then employed to the best advantage, and, that she could continue, for the present, to pro tect Norfolk and thus afford time to remove the public property. Oa the next day, at ten o’clock A. M. we ob* served from the Virginia that the flag was not fly ing on the Sewell’s Point Battery, and that it ap peared to have been abandoned. I despatched Lieut. J. P. Jones,the Flag Lieutenant, to Craney Island, where the Confederate fisg was still fiy.ng, ’ and he there learned that a large forced theene ! my bad landed on the Bay shore, and were march ! ing rapidly on Norfolk, that the Sewtil’s Point i Battery was abandoned, and our troops were re treating.' 1 then dispatched the same officer to Norfolk, to confer with General Huger and Capt. Lee. He found the Navy Yard in flames, and, that all its officers had left by Railroad. Oa reach ing Norfolk he found that General Huger and all the other officers of the army, had also left, that the enemy were within half a mile of Jhe city, and that the Mayer was treating for its surren der. On returning to the ship, he found that Craney Island and all the other batteries on tbe river had been abandoned. It was now seven o’clock in the evening, and this unexpected information rendered prompt measures necessary for the safety of iue Virginia. The pilots had assured me that they could take tbe ship, with a draft of eighteen feet", to witbin forty miles of Richmond. This, the Chief Pilot, Mr. Parrish, and his Chief Assistant, Mr. Wright, had asserted, again and again, and, on the afternoon of the 7th, in ' my cabin, m the presence of Commodore Hollins and Captain Sterrett, in reply to a question of mine, they both emphatically declared their i ability to do so. I Confiding in these assurances, and, after con- I suiting with tbe First and Flag Lieutenants, and > learning that the officers, generally, thought it the most judicious course, I determined to lighten the ship at once, and run up the nver, for the protection of Richmond. All hands having been called on deck, I stated to them tbe condition of things, and my hope that, by getting'lip the river before the enemy could be made aware of our design, we might capture his vessels whicn had ascended it, and render efficient aid in the defense of Richmond, but that, to effect tbi*, would require all their energy in lightening the ship. They replied with three cheers, and went to work at once. The pilons were on deck, and heard this address to the crew. Being quite unwell, I had retired to bed. Be tween ene and two o’clock in the morning, lhe First Lieutenant reported to me that, after tbe crew had worked for five or six hours, and lifted the ship, so as to render her unfit for action, the pilots had dec ared their inability to carry eighteen feet above tbe Jamestown Flats, up to which point the shore, on each side, was occupied by tbe enemy. i Ou demanding from the chief pilot, Mr. Parrish, ' an explanation of this palpable deception, he re plied that eighteen feet could net be carried after tbe prevalence of Easterly winds, and that the wind for the last two days bad been Westerly. I had no time to lose. Tbe ship was not in a condition for battle, even with an enemy of equal force and their force was overwhelming, I, there fore, determined with the concurrence of the First and F-sg Lieutenants, to save tbe crew for future aervice, by landing them at Craney Island, the only road for retreat open to us, and to destroy tha ship to prevent her falling into the hands of the enemy. I may add, that although not formal ly consulted, the course was approved by every commissioned officer in the ship. There is no dissenting opinion. The ship was accordingly put on shore as near the main-land in the vicinity of Craney Island as possible and the crew landed, she was then fired, and after burning fiercely fore and aft for upwards of an hour, blew up a little before five on the morning of the 11th. We marched for Suffolk, twenty-two miles, and reached it in the evening, and from thence came by Railroad to this city. It will be asked what motives the pilots could have bad to deceive me. The only imaginable one is, that they iwished to avoid going into battle. £: •' Had the ship noCbeen lifted, so as to render her unfit for action, a desperate contest must have ensued with a force against us too great to justify much hope of success, and, as battle is not their occupation they adopted this deceitful course to avoid it. i cannot imagine another motive, for 1 ■ bad seen no reason to distrust their good faitb to ! the Confederacy. My acknowledgements are due to tbe First | AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1862. i lieutenant, Ap- Catesby .Lines, for his untiring 1 exertions, and for the aid he rendered tne in all I things The detail for firing the ship and lan-. I ding t’he crew were left to h-m and everything i wa.- conducted -with the most perfect order. I To the other officers of the shin, generally, I am also ihebkaful lor the g-rn'lzoal they displayed throughout. Tbe “Virginia” no longer exists, but three hundred byave and skillful officers and seamen are saved to the Confederacy. I presume that a court < f inquiriry will be or dered to examine into ai! the cirwmstances I have narrated, and I earnestly soliu.t it. Public opinion will rever be put right without it. lan sir. w L; great respect, Your obedient servant, (S'gned) Jostah Tatnall, Flag Vfficw'Cotnmandmg. Hon. 3. R. Mallory, Secretary of tbe Navy. Fromtfi; Jtlacon t'Ja-l Moy 22. COTTON PLANTERS’ CONVENTION. Ambbicus, May 13, 1862. Agreeable to previous adjournment, the Cot.ton Planters’ Convention met in the Court House. The President read tbe Constitution and Rules, when several gentlemen came forward and registered their names as members ot the Con vention. The Secretary being absent, on motion of Mr. Isaac C. West, Francis A. Hill, Esq., was request ed to act as Secretary. x.The President presented and read his eommu* nication. To the members of tbe Convention : tfenfZmwn: No organization, having similar objects for its accomplishment, ever entered up on’its career with brighter prospects as useful ness than ditf yours ; and bo organization ever had before it a more bril.iant and inviting future. But the devastating war in which the country is engaged, for the present suspends our operations It is too true that from the beginning we had enemies, some open and avowed, othes secret and concealed; and notwithstanding our enemies have made us feel the force of their opposition, our progress has been onward We have clearly and unmistakably demonstrated that public spir ited disinterestedness ever neutralizes, if it doe® not. annihilate, individual selfishness. Compelled, as we are, mamiy to suspend our operations, we must wait patiently until more favorable circumstances will allow us to proceed. In the meantime, we should reflect as much as possib.e upou the highly interesting and benefi cial objects of our association, so that when the period of active operations returns we may be tne more competent to mature our plans and nur sue our purposes. The subject of direct trade with foreign coun tries is no longer open and debatable, for all admit not only its propriety, but its necessity, j It would be improper for me, here, to add any ; thing to what I have heretofore safd upon this i subject, further than to say, that in my judgment, direct trade and free trade are inseparably con* I nected. And would the present or prospective 1 condition of the country allow it, I should cer* I tainly urge upon the eons’deration of the Con | vention toe question of free trade. Bui the war ! will fix upon the country so large a debt, that a ■ tariff ot duties upon imports will perhaps be the most practicable expedient that the government can suggest for its exting» : -hment. Be this as it may, the probability now that the adoption of tbe free trade policy must be indefinitely post poned. Other and more favorable circumstances, perhaps far in tbe future, must transpire before tae time for the adoption i f this policy will have irrived. There is not now, nor will there probably soon be, in the commercial world so interesting a , question as tbe successful laying of a telegraph ■ cable across the Atlantic. The effort heretofore I made for the accomplishment of this great and i very desirable object has for various reasons, , some avoidable, otners insuperable, been unsuc- ■ cessful. Without entering into an examination of these reasons, 1 declare it as my judgment, • after having been on the ground, that it is im* • possible there to succeed. Notwithstanding, England, fully alive to tbe importance of this I work, and grasping as she is after all commercial and other advantages, *s now preparing, it is . said, to make another effort; and with her usual i selfishness, asks no other government or interest (and, perhaps, would allow no other government or interest) to participate in it, determined as she ; is, if successful, to have it under her control. 1 conceive and submit that an enterprise of this l kind and magnitude should be purely commer i ciai, and be the property of the commercial tn* terest. Ail governments engaged in tbe world’s • commerce should have a corresponding interest in this mode of communication—it should not be effected by war or other contingency. But if England should succeed, the work will be to her exclusively a mode of communication, military as well as commercial. Success in ibis under taking will tend to increase the haughtiness of tbe mest imperious government of modern times. Impressed witn the importance of this work, and the impracticability es its performanec from Cape Race to Cape Ciear. tbe mind naturallv turns to the inquiry, whether there is not some other way across the ocean where this work can be performed? Or, whetner tbe conception be not altogether impracticable? 1 confess myself to be of the number who believe the work prac ticable. So believing, on the4iti day of October, 18IW, 1 opened a correspondence with Commands er Maury, of the 'Washington Observatory, the best authority in nautical matters known to tbe world, suggesting the practicability of a route from Europe along the coast of Africa, thence to Brazil, thence to the United States. To this suggestion, on the 15th day of October, 1860, Commander Maury made a tavorable and flatter ing answer, from which I submit this extract: “The route you propose for a telegraph between the old world and the new, is not without strong advocates on the other side. You will be grati fied to learn that you are not alone in your opin icn as to tbe advantages of your route. Tbe idea was broached pending the famous Atlantic Tel egraph, that tbe best route would be from jlng land via Spain and Portugal, thence to Madeira, thence to Cape Verd Islands, thence to thePen edo de San Pedro, thence to’Brazil, and over land to the Cuayamas, thence along the wind ward and leeward Islands and Cuba, to the Unit ed States. “Practically, though, nothing has been done for this route, and it would be very desirable to have it ‘sounded out.’ I should be most happy to encourage, in my humble way, tbe fitting out of a vessel for that purpose.” Upon the reception of the letter from Com-' mander Maury, 1 immediately wrote to Hon, Alfred Iverson, then a member of the United States Senate, requesting him to submit to the consideration of the Secretary of tbe Navy, the propriety of detailing and furnishing, under the direction of Commander Maury, a suitable ves-; sei for tbe purpose of “sounding out” the pro posed route. The alacrity evinced by Judge foerson, in this business, convinced me, at once, of the deep interest he felt in it,and had things continued as they then were, it is probable that what remains to be ascertained, concerning the proposed route, would long ago have been known. But the troubles in which the country is now involved were so rapidly assuming their pres ent aspect, that al) questions of this kind, were, necessarily, postponed. Hoping that all diffi- ■ culties would not be of long continuance, I have I not, therefore, brought this subject to your con sideration, but now that tbe country is involved in a war of indefinite continuance, I deem it proper to submit it, in order that the Cocventicn may take such action on the subject fts; may be deemed proper. At your last meeting, in the .city of Macon, vou submitted to the cousid eratiotf •of Cotton Planters, the propriety of largely reducing the usual breadth of land planted tyilli cotton seed, and the reasons in support of this suggestions, were then sqhrqitted. Wbat hast been done, in this respect, there exists no means of ascer taining, but I deem it a reasonable conjecture to say, that the crop has been reduced five eights. Propposed by Col. J. S. Thomas. Resol.vtd, That, the Convention, suspending' for the present, the various subjects would, ordinari ly engatge its attention, that we approve .all tbe I meansand measures adopted for the defence of I the country. And we urge the whole j eople to 1 aid and abet tbe government of the Confederacy, !in tbe active prosecution of the war, into which we have been so unjustly plunged by the govern ment of the Northern States. Proposed bv Mr. S. Bel); Resolved, That tbe Convention approve hearti ly, of the present amount of grain which has been planted, and urge still further efforts, asjh.e sea sons may allow, for planting esculents of ,every kind. Proposed by Mr. F. A. Hill: : , Resolved, That we disapprove of the action bfour representatives in the Confederate Congress,, ip tbe extravagant appropriation made in favor, by voting themselves, individual-lyi,. .three thousand dollars per annum; particularly whfen the government'is involved in heavy pecuniary difficulties. Proposed by Mr. M. West: Resolved, That the next annual meeting of the Convention be held in the city of Americas, Sum ter county. The Convention then adjourned. Howell Cobb, President. F. A. Hill, Sec’y pro tem. - • From lhe Charleston THE YANKEE WAR POLICY—OUR LAND AND NEGROES. ; It is refreshing ia note the coolness with vyb’.'ch ‘ the Northern journals are arranging the future, disposition of the lands and negroeti belonging to the people of tbe “rebellious'’ states. The la-ads, they all agree, must be apportioned among Yan kee settlers ; the negroes are to be stolen, and, ’ as slaves, are to “continue happy’’ under Yan kee taskmasters. With regard to the. “appor* tionment,” we copy the scheme gravely sug gested by the editor of the New York Rost. He says : At convenient points lay out tracts from the forfeited ot 40,000 acres each. Lay out these tracts in squares, as near as may be, and let each of these tracts be the homestead of a body of a thousand men—say a regiment! of infantry, battery of artillery and a squadron of cavalry. At each angle of tbe square of eight miles— which would be about tbe size of a 40,000 acre tract—l would place a redoubt with a few guns. In the centre place a fort large enough to need a garrison of a thousand men. Here could be the Quartermasier’s stores, the shop,’etc—in fact, the village of the homestead. • I would divide the tract into forty acre farms, as near as might be. On them the soldiers could work when off drill, and raise crops, with the aid of free negroes or otherwise—these negroes being in a state of apprenticeship. Such troops would need little pty, they could nearly maintain them selves. They could be made, by the effect of mil itary discipline, to treat the apprentices kindly, and to work regularly, and they could help col lect the war tax. I would cover the revolted States with a che quer-work of these fortified homesteads—let the white squares on a cbeqaer'ffioard represent va cant lands—the black the fortified ones. The low* : al whites could occupy the vacant lands. As to lands, that is certainly explicit enough. And the following editorial from the Boston Pilot is equally explicit with regard to tbe fate which the Yankees have in store for such negroes as fall into their bands: What should be ultimately done with the seized blacks? They cannot be restored to their first owners, for they are traitors, if t iey be allowed their freedom they will be worse than a plague of locusts to the Free States; if they be not taken care of they will suffer from every description of j want, f. r they have never known bow to provide ; for their own necessities; if they be taken from I the South, the cotton, the tobacce, the rice, lhe fruit and the sugar Os the Souta will disappear, to tbe great detriment of the commerce, and, therefore, the happiness of the world, and send* ing them to Liberia would involve an enormous expense, which the country, at present, is unable to bear. Thus, the case has a formidable difficulty ■at every side of it. But something must be done. Before six months there will be scores of thous ands of negro contrabands on our hands. Wbat is the best thing to be done with them ? It is plain that the negro is better off, both in regard tq himself and to the whites, in bondage, than in any other state. Nature has intended him to- be the slave of the white man, and nothing else. Every feature of bis mind, of his disposition, and of his person, indicate this. Inal! he is, he is nature’s work as completely as tbe white man is. Philanthropy is a fine virtue, but it is a vice when -t would subvert the decrees of Nature, which is another term for Law , and it is as clear as any- / thing on which the sun shines, that the servi’ e condition is the most happy in which the bla r ; . r can be. There is no sense in objecting to fact; Nature has made it, and history is the ness. To bondage, therefore, the cont\^|- an( i negros should be restored. Expediency requires this. Humanity—a generous regard’ s or ‘ t b e blacks themselves—demands it with a koud voice Bondage is their natural position. i n 4 they were as happy as they could be beh ihp rP h P u hon commenced ; 1D ‘ it they wo be hXv again. To bondage,. therefore, /hev ?hould l Ve restored. But wno should be mastpro y Not their old ones, for they ?Xrs™ They, therefore shou'd have new 'waters. Who they should be It is too soon yet (0 , U ggest. A little time will tell. Bu. this is certain : that the most natural and mo expedient thing for all parties to be done with, the contraband blacks is to restore tnem to bondage, and to bondage in their native country- -the South. Fieb in JoNßSßo r xo’, Ga.—A friend from Jones- ! boro ,on the 19t’ z i ns tant, writes us that “last nignt oetween 8. and 9 o’clock, the beautiful and ! valuable resid snee belonging to and occupied by Mrs. Juna A. Burnsides, together with nearly all its contents and outbuildings, was destroyed bv lire and rendered useless. No lime was allowed to remove anything scarcely; even the wearing clothes and money was destioyed, and the family in comparatively a few minutes, were deprived of a good house and those necessary things that had taken years to accumulate. The c mse of the fire is unknown. There was no insurance. Atlanta latelllgenee , May 21. The Enemy Below.—On yesterday the enemy on Cockspnr Island, sent up a balloon early j'n the day. There was one tent visible at the bats tery on Oakland Island, and no vessel was to be seen in the river. Their preparations are no doubt being quietly perfected, and we should not be lulled info false security.— Saoannak Republican, May 21. Ex-Governor Lowe, of Maryland with his family, is at present in Milledgeville, the guest of brotherniEhlaw, L. H. Briscoe, Esq. VOL. 14,—N0 22 THE MISSOURI ARMY ARGUS. We have.-received a number of the Missouri Army Ar<jus, now* published at Corinth, Miss, by W. F. Wisely, and edited by J. W, Tucker, formerly, we believe, editor of the St. Louis (MiSpqqrt) State Journal, which paper was sup pressed because of its secession proclivities. The Argvs is issued wherever Gen. Prices’ army * halts, and is intended to furnish army and othar news for the soldiers. We clip the following ar ticle from the Argeis'. Tub Irish Soldier?.—A statement obtained ’some currency through cerlalmEV.wsiiapers to the effect that the surrender of Fqrt "Jam k* on and tbe fall of New Orleans, was- tbefie.-ul; of a mutiny in the Fort by the Irish troops. z This statement proves to be utterly false, and grossly unjust to that gallant and patriotic class of Southern troops. The troops which did mu tiny were foreigners, it is said, and were com posed of French and Germans. The Irish were as true as the magnet to the North pole. Irish men are not. the men to prove treacherous to the cause they have so nobly espoused from princi ple alone. We have inspected a written states ment, given by an officer who participated in the struggle at New Orleans, showing from facts,, numbers, station?, and organizstious, the brave aud loyal bearing of the Irish troops on that memorable occasion. The loyalty aud bravery of our Irish fellow citizens in tbe .South, in this our time of trial and of peril, will ever be a theme of grateful admiration to the Southern \ people. \ Let those public journals which have unwit tingly aided in circulating this cruellv and un just report, hasten correct it, aud do ample justice to those Lrave men who to-day stand witg swords dra K'h to do battle with and for the sons o. the These gallant. men shall be numbered t be c fa O sea ones of our future ins hentance.. I from the Savannah IlefuOlieetn, Mayii. The readers aud patrons of the R-publican. will see, by reference t» another column, that the Editor. James R. Sneed, Esq., who fora k-ng time has so ably filled this editorial chair, has ut last passed to another state of existence. It may not be out of place, in this brief notice, to say, that the movements of the departed have bt*en, for many months, the subject of anxious observation on the part of his dearest friends. To say the least, they have been unaccountable. He has been known suddenly to leave bis office, and after an absence of one or two days, as sud denly to reappear. No one was warned of his de parture or of his return. He has, with increased frequency of late, time and again, left his sancs turn on Friday afternoon, and wandered up, aud down tbe Gentrail Railroad track, until Monday morning, enduring the smoke and dust and fa tigue of railroad travel, instead of enjoying bis ease aud quiet, and recreation in and around the city. Bsing frequently in his company for several months past, and observing these symptoms, we made our diagnosis of his case and’became con- I vinced that he had hypertrophy or enlargement of the heart. As t?te event has proved our susv pieion was true. The affection increased until, as tbe report before us p.’" OT6S » capacity of his heart was sufficient to c «»O}her qf equal size. But after all we must not mo.’’ rn > even we shall never more behold him he was - We have known him long, and can assu re his fronds of our confident belief that he was p -epared f or the change. He had long kept his lamp ♦■rimmrA and burning, waiting for the evenfful ho 5,7 " A minister of the Gospel was called in, and, ai'**' a few words of exhortation, a quick flutter of 1 pulse, and a gentle nod of tbe head, saying he' was willing, he passed joyfully into the “bletsed estate. , The fallowing notice which we find in another part of the same journal will explain the object ot the above article. It’s 11 say that we wish our editorial friend and his fair bride much matrimonial happiness: Married—On Tuesday evening, 20th inste rt at bandersville Ga., bv Rev. F. R Gould James R. rfneed, Esq., Editor of the Sav Repuot.ca.ri,' and Miss Leonora Coben, a* Mary’s, Ga. ot.- Movements of theWe’ , t reports, says the Ksme (Gari C tt<ltheiiuca4efi reached here Tuesday rnorrO ot tbe’22d, Yankees, or Yankee-Dutc 1 Dutcbi> —had crossed the Ten whichever you please vilie, with a force of s lessee river al Gunters had commenced the Hundred cavalry, and ports arc rife that Z V sua< de P re ff a tioiis Res erations. * intend to extend their op. petre in tbat f,ad een making salts their >w»er moved off by ThSv wi'l e oa ' Pues day last. We lea’ be moved farther South. Huntsvi’ a lat-ge portion of the atiny of Sn»rs f IS e '’ m ?° sod oflow Dutch aud for, ed an'u TU description, almost too degrad uttci /Y 8 b r c ‘ aSßed among humanity, and l tci devoid of any enobling lralls 01 X, a “ whatever and hesitates not at any acts of dainy and deprecation that mar gratify their ! xuitisn sensuality. s metr And must we lie supinely still, Rn d let thia ZeilJf th e ° f Clvi! ’ zed Bava ges overrun any more fhl UnajSuulh? What haß become of the dauntless courage and chiralric uanng that was to have en unerring rifle behind every forest ree m ! V he pa,^.WB T of tbe invader? That was to mat k every footstep of his unhallowed w*th the cri.7 son tide of life ? Or is Mr cou £™ uke Bob Acres , “oozed out at his fingers’ ends*”- Up toen, and let us be doing and let us wipe out the stain that already rests upon us, for per mitting them to remain so long in onßof P ihe fairest spots of the world. * 01 U News from thk Coast.-Wc learn bv a courier who reached the city Thursday morning, that thl pickets captured by the in the affair of Wednesday on Battery Island, consisted of Ser geant White, Corporal Wilson and f our pr of Company E, (Colletin Guards) attached to Cm! CH. Stevens Regiment None o f t h e Marion Rifles were captured as reported, nor injured- The gunboats continue to throw shell intbenei.il. borhood of Battery Island yesterday, and wf re w >tbiu a half miles ofSecessiouvtHe. No attack on the latter post is anticipated as the enemy from the shallowness of the- river eaonot bring his boats within range of good sfnk.nJ d,st r?T t Our ! men are pre? red b f land attack, and if a fight takes place which is probable, we may expect some news A deserter from Major Lncas’ command ate tempting to make his way to the fleet w-« tur-ed yesterday nearSeciaionviUe, by a member of t<i6 Willington Hungers. C'/mt teflon Cou) lULaty 23 I Col. Morgan and the Boys.—While on bin to this city Tuesday, on the West Point train a boy came along selling Clgar s. Col. Morgln took “aid- *4 don’? h h WaS about t 0 puy the bey nin 1 d ’ c , ba, E e you anything for cigars ” Col. Morgan asked him why. “Oh ” savs th» boy “you are the Col. Morgan who’ hl 8 y been k ve gS” U P| Ud y u U ar t welcome *0 anything I l 1 leused wl,h the answer Col Mor gan took from a roll of U. S. Treasm’v five dollar bill, and presented it to the bov and told him to keep it as e. memento. " Montgomery {Al.a) Advertiser, May 22.